the one you found makes me feel a little better. The neck on "yours" looks a lot like mine, as do the tuners (which I felt were NOT vintage).

Look at the pics of my guitar and you can see that "white letters on black" thing that the seller was referring to. Now I'm going to have to email him and get further info from him (as to how he knows about that since his guitar was changed before he got it).

So now I feel like maybe my guitar has at least an original Electra neck. I'm still not feeling that good about the body or electrics but I frankly haven't touched the thing since I got it. Interestingly, the auction pic of the headstock kinda convinced me to bid because it looked like the neck was pretty nice -- and vintage. As did the headstock. Who knows -- maybe it's real. I only paid $200 and got a really nice flight case with it, so I didn't get ripped off too badly if it's fake.

Now, the REAL reason I came on to post today is to report on a couple of other things -- one very much related; namely, ANOTHER Electra Strat -